As always the highlight of the Christmas Holiday period for Jump enthusiasts will be the King George VI Chase sponsored by William Hill, worth £180,000.00 and run over 3 miles at Kempton Park on Boxing Day (26th). Long Run (pictured) won this last year and is the bookies favourite to do so again. There...
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The Hennessy Gold Cup Handicap Chase, worth £150,000.00, will be run over 3 miles 2 furlongs at Newbury this Saturday (26th November). I doubt if we will have the excitment and emotion as experienced last Saturday with Kauto Stars’ brilliant comeback win in the Betfair Chase at Haydock Park but there have been some...
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As it says on the Cheltenham Racecourse Website “Football has Wembley, Tennis has Wimbledon and Jump racing has Cheltenham”. Already all roads lead to Cheltenham in March 2012. The three Day Cheltenham Open Meeting kicks off this Friday (11th November) with the main race being the Paddy Power Gold Cup Handicap Chase run on Saturday. Long...
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For me the Charlie Hall Steeple Chase run over 3 miles and 1 furlong at Wetherby signifies the start of the new National Hunt Season. The race was first run in 1969 as the Wetherby Pattern Chase and won by Arcturus trained by Neville Crump and ridded by Pat Buckley. In 1978 it became...
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The much heralded Qipco British Champions Day takes place tomorrow (15th October) at Ascot. There is a terrific card of top class racing, the star of which I am sure will be Frankel (pictured) who runs in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes over the straight mile. This race used to be run over the...
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The Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe is the greatest flat race in Europe and will be run this Sunday (2nd October) over 12 furlongs at Longchamp in France. Workforce (pictured winning from Nakayama Festa a year ago) will be attempting to win the race for a second time. The last horse to do this...
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It is ten days to the fifth and final classic of the 2011 Flat season, the Ladbrokes St Leger Stakes at Doncaster. The race is worth £500,000.00 and run over 1 mile 6 furlongs. Sea Moon (pictured) is the antepost favourite after his win at York in the Voltigeur Stakes. Either all the other...
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July is always a terrific month for Flat racing, starting with the Coral Eclipse on the 2nd where So You Think beat Workforce, then my favourite meeting, the three day July Festival at Newmarket, but the big race of the month is the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on the...
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The Group 1 Coral Eclipse worth £400,000.00 which will be run over one mile two furlongs at Sandown Park tomorrow (2nd) should be a cracking race. There are only five runners and the race does look as though it will be fought out between So You Think and Workforce. So You Think comes over...
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The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby will be run this Sunday at the Curragh in Ireland. The race is worth 1,250,000 euros and will be run over 1 mile 4 furlongs. There will be eight runners and the Queen’s horse, Carlton House (pictured), is a warm favourite to run a big race. The Aidan O’Brien...
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